Although Darin Harbick won the Republican primary vote for District 12 with over 80% of the vote against incumbent Charlie Conrad in the May Primary, he will not be running unopposed this November. Democrat Michelle Emmons received 655 write-in votes, accounting for 53% of those votes. “I feel honored that[Read More…]
Author: Amanda Lurey
‘Spirit of Bohemia Mining Days’ alive and well three weeks out from makeshift event
COTTAGE GROVE – When the Bohemia Mining Days board decided to cancel the event for 2024, Matthew Hewlett, a BMD board member at the time, asked for permission to put on his own event. His original idea was to just put the jail cell in Coiner Park to take people’s[Read More…]
Springfield leasing properties
SPRINGFIELD — During its last meeting before summer break, the Springfield Economic Development Agency (SEDA) board voted to allow the city manager to lease two of its properties and sell two others. Up for sale are 138 Main St. and 4095 Franklin Blvd, and up for lease are 236 Main[Read More…]
2nd city council recall attempt sticks
City Recorder: Cottage Grove special election scheduled July 30 COTTAGE GROVE – Chief petitioner Michael Borke has done what he was unable to last year: collect enough valid signatures to move forward with a special election in an attempt to recall three Cottage Grove City Councilors. Councilors Mike Fleck, Chalice[Read More…]
CTE program tackling Oregon’s homeless
Students across middle, high schools helping construct sheds, cottages, planters, and more Although Constructing a Brighter Future has rebranded itself as Team Oregon Build, a new name doesn’t mean a new direction for the program. In fact, it will be doubling down on its mission – to address the homeless[Read More…]
Creswell is calling
CRESWELL – Marcie and her husband Garl lived in Vienna, Austria, for the last few years. But Garl’s mother, now 93, isn’t in great health, which led them to come back to the States, specifically South Carolina, to be close to her. The couple visited Oregon last month because, given[Read More…]
Buck Center still providing opportunities
Elisabeth “Lisl” Waechter founded the Pearl Buck School for children with developmental disabilities in 1953 in Creswell. She did this because there was not yet special education offered in public schools. The school was named after Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author Pearl S. Buck, who had a daughter[Read More…]
Grove’s Bohemia Mining Days off, on again, now with ‘Spirit’
COTTAGE GROVE – Since the Bohemia Mining Days board announced its inability to put on the Grove’s annual BMD celebration last month, opting to skip this year and hopefully come back in 2025, a group of community members have decided to put on a “Spirit of BMD” event July 19-21.[Read More…]
The End of a Chapter
Creswell’s champion of children’s reading retires CRESWELL – Laurie Swanson-Gribskov started Creslane Elementary School’s Intergenerational Reading Collaboration (IRC) about a decade ago, and she is retiring from the program with her legacy well established. IRC is a reading program that works with Creslane students from kindergarten through third grade to[Read More…]
Morgan family raises the roof
■ Nonprofit First Story will give the Morgan family a zero-down, zero-interest mortgage on a brand-new Hayden Home in Springfield’s Woodland Ridge community this October. SPRINGFIELD – Marie, 25, and Kees, 26, Morgan, along with their now-6-week-old baby boy Everett, got their first taste of homeownership thanks to First Story:[Read More…]